User talk:Pillar of salt

The human physiology, and namely the differences between men & women lends proof for the Aquatic Ape hypothesis. Fact: men ‘generally’ tend toward baldness while women do not; adolescent males generally tend toward acne while females do not. Fact: humans in general are able to grow hair long (as opposed to Bonobos /chimpanzees).

Another further clue is found in the detailed carving of a female figure from mammoth ivory,over 25,000 yrs of age. The girl's hair that is undeniably cross hatched… like a net.

Baldness creates aerodynamics that work well in water, a genetic mutation that supports the the streamlined human body. A bald head has less drag, thus allowing a greater advantage in diving and swimming. That baldness is generally located on the top of the head is also strategic- natural selection process. This special adaptation, would allow the lower section of hair remaining, to be long weavable strands that could be made into a curved net( readily available net). The hair of the girls/women could be fashioned into nets as it grew (hence the figurine with net hair). When needed, this could be cut off and spliced into the hair of the divers. Thus it was more important for women to evolve long fine hair and lots of it (no baldness). The fine net was likely rolled up into a bun when not in use (hence the customs of stylizing hair that remain even today). This bun could easily be uncoiled when in the water, and if the ends of the hair had small bead like ‘floatilas’ attached, the net would rise up and fan out in the water, and in appearance would have looked very much like the lacey fan coral that abounds in tropical seas… a sure way to capture unsuspecting fish.

The sandy shores of the African coast were reddish during glacial times and so the red ochre that is predominantly found in ancient human sights is indicative that this was a valued resource. The red ochre could have been rendered into a powder and then mixed with a base of thick waxy fat and then plastered onto the skin of the divers. This would serve to flatten the hairs of the body giving better aerodynamics and also would serve to close off the pores, conserve body heat, prevent hypothermia and allow for longer stays in the water. The fact that men have hairier bodies is also strategical adaptation in that it serves to anchor the fatty wax mixture to the body (like horse hair plaster). The red coloring would also serve to camouflage, allowing the divers to blend with the sandy bottom, the net standing up from their heads like a coral fan. If little shiny beads and objects were woven into the net, this would serve to attract fish which could then be captured easy enough by quickly reeling in the flexible net via strategic lines and a simple swoop of the arms.

No doubt, rafts were used to get to the more bountiful reefs further out. Adolescent boys would have remained on the raft to apprentice … and what better way to learn than to watch. This would have left them with their faces in salty waters where the view was best. To compensate for prolonged periods where the their faces would be in the salt waters, nature would evolve in boys, the ability to produce an overabundance of oils in the tissues of the face. Thus for boys who no longer stick their face in the sea on a daily basis today, is the tendancy for runaway acne.

It is proven that new born baby’s are natural born swimmers. No doubt, since fishing/diving was such an important occupation, the earlier the lessons the better. Women were the coaches and teachers, taking babies and young children to the warm, shallow less salty waters of the estuaries. Perhaps in the safer areas of mangroves where they could have easily made their homes. Here there would be an abundance of smaller fish to practice on and no doubt an abundanc of other food sources like the eggs of and nesting birds,and fruit laden vines.

Pillar of salt (talk) 21:14, 17 August 2008 (UTC)